Mods please tell me if I should post this somewhere else.
This dude is a mod at [email protected] (even though they are not listed there as mod) and [email protected] (same thing, they aren’t a mod there either)
My modlog does say I was banned by this person, and no reason is stated. This person is ignoring my DM / has blocked me? I genuinely don’t remember even posting there as they are relatively small communities, and I’m not subscribed to them. I saw one post on global news today in my All feed and tried to upvote it, and that’s how I discovered.
Now I’m seeing in this persons post history that they are some kind of lemmy.zip admin of some instance possibly.
So I’m seeing to know if this person is almighty as an instance admin, and can just ban people in any community on that instance or if this could be some kind of automod mistake.
Thanks
E: @mods, I’ve got all the info I needed, feel free to lock/remove
Looks like they banned you from the lemmy.zip instance only: https://lemmy.zip/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModBan&userId=16510340
When a federated account is banned from an instance, the backend also bans them from any community on the instance they’ve interacted with (including if you’ve just voted in them if I’m not mistaken).
Also, yes, admins can ban anyone on any community on their instance (but only locally if it’s a remote community). Ergo, a lemmy.zip admin can ban you from [email protected] on their instance, but you won’t be officially banned and other instances will see your content there while users on lemmy.zip will not.
That’s pretty insane levels of power.
So Occam’s Razor is that this instance admin must have seen one of my opinionated pieces on Trump or something that offended them, and then just said “Nah, this one isn’t coming to my instance”?
Not because I broke a rule, or offended anyone on that instance but because one person didn’t like my opinion on a post somewhere else.
How is that insane levels of power? They don’t want you sending messages to their server instance they own and pay for. It only effects other people on Lemmy.zip and the only effect on you is that you can’t interact with the communities hosted there. You’re still free to participate and use communities on any other instance. Lemmy is not a centralized service like reddit. It is a web of small instances and you send email like messages in the activitypub format to each one. If you have a shitty opinion and someone who owns and pays for a server doesn’t want your shitty opinion to contaminate their server, that is their right.
Ok from that point of view it is seems reasonable, but seeing how I’m on world, and world is like still 60-70% of Lemmy, I was referring to the fact that hypothetically one lemmy.world admin could essentially make people disappear.
Which is what ICE is for.
Which is kinda what we’re here trying to call out.
With insane levels of power I meant that one person in their basement with their parents creditcard who no one elected, has a disproportionate say in who gets to speak and who doesn’t.
I’m not on X and I’m basically just discovering (I know) that this is just a glued together bunch of X-es. (In terms of of absolute admin power, luckily not (yet) in terms of content)
If that person did this reasonless instance-banning with multiple people, at what point would there be a consideration to defederate from their instance? Is there even a process for that?